Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Little bantams are great at crowing. Pr.

Little boats must keep near shore. Pr.

Little bodies have great souls. Pr. 5

Little by little the little bird builds its nest. Pr.

Little children, little sorrows; big children, great sorrows. Pr.

Little chips light great fires. Pr.

Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, / Make our earth an Eden like the heaven above. F. S. Osgood.

Little dew-drops of celestial melody. Carlyle, 10 of Burns' songs.

Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth; for a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. Bacon.

Little drops of rain pierce the hard marble. Lily.